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The winter question, honestly.
Every sailor who hears “solar-electric” asks the same thing, and they’re right to ask it: what happens in a Pacific-Northwest winter, when the sun barely clears the trees and the days are short and…
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A thousand miles, no fuel dock.
The first thing people want to know about an electric sailboat is how far it will really go. Not the datasheet figure — the honest one, the one that survives a multi-week cruise on…
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The sweet spot nobody tells you about.
“Isn’t electric just too slow to be practical?” It’s the second question, right after range, and it comes from a good instinct — you don’t want to trade your diesel for something that turns…
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What cavitation taught us.
Most companies bury their failures. We’re going to put ours in the log, because the most useful thing the thousand-mile trial produced wasn’t a triumph — it was a limitation, and that limitation is…
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Built like an organism.
Underneath the range worry and the winter worry sits a deeper one, the one nobody quite says out loud: what happens when a part fails, far from help? A diesel gives you one thing…
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Three deployments, one equation.
Here’s the claim that ought to make a careful buyer pause: the model that sizes your boat’s power system isn’t a boat trick. It’s a general answer to a general question — how much…
The Ship’s Log
Field notes from the boats — what the sea trial actually showed, honestly, numbers and all. Feeling first; the data is here to back it up.